A generative space of listening and sharing amongst activists, artists and scholars for future impact.

Uptown People’s Assembly brings together artists working in all disciplines, arts professionals, and scholars to moderate a durational event of art, testimony and conversation with a focus on our current compounding crises: the coronavirus and the civil unrest decrying the racist killings of Black people by police officers. Both community members and the general public are invited to speak and participate in this event.

Co-conveners and Moderators:

10 am – 10:30 am: Wallach Art Gallery

10:30 am – 11 am: Cathleen Campbell, filmmaker

11 am – 12 pm: Dianne Smith, artist

12 pm – 1 pm: Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University

1 pm – 2 pm: Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University

2 pm – 3 pm: Hunter East Harlem Gallery

3 pm – 4 pm: Columbia Community Wellness Center + Harlem Wellness Center

4 pm – 5 pm: Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

5 pm – 6 pm: Harlem School of the Arts

6 pm – 7 pm: Pastor Joshua Brown, New Level Worship Center

7 pm – 8 pm: Daniel Carlton, actor, poet, playwright, storyteller and teacher

8 pm – 9 pm: Black Siren Radio at The American Assembly and WKCR

9 pm – 10 pm: DJ April Hunt

We appreciate your participation in the UPTOWN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY. We want this to be a time for solidarity and understanding. Let’s try and foster a supportive, patient, generous and respectful space today, one of mutual respect, free of profanity and obscenities. Please be respectful of the co-conveners/moderators thoughts and opinions, even if you disagree! Comments and questions are open to all attendees using the raise hand and chat functions.

*This event is being recorded*